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My name is Reggie Reid. Salonia Reed is my mother and Reginal Reed Senior is my father. My mother, she was the love of
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my life, my first love. And I was her everything. It was very rare I wasn't by her side.
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Take me back and tell me what you remember about that day. That day we went to the mall. That's one of the
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things to do in Hammond. Just go to the mall. Even though if you're not buying anything, window shop, if you will. Went
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to the mall, came home, and my mom went out and she never came home. My beeper went off and it was Reginal.
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And he asked me, "Had I seen Salonia?" And I said, "No, not since yesterday." I was a patrol officer for the Ham
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Police Department. I was dispatched to a missing person's call on Apple Street in
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Hammond, Louisiana. The complainant, Regin, explained to me that his wife had left home the night before and had not
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returned and he was concerned and wanted to file a missing person's report. I had
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received a description of the car from Reginald that I started to drive up Range Road and I noticed the
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car, walked up to the car and noticed Salonia's body inside the car. It was very, very, very obvious that she was
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deceased. Salonia was 26 years old at the time. When I watched the crime scene video and
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saw Salon's body in that car, immediately I was sad. I was mad. It was pretty apparent to me right away that
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whoever did this homicide hated this woman. So I called Regina back. I says, "Regina, have you heard anything?" He
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told me, he said, "Yes." He said they found her in her car. And he said that she was dead. And
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that was I was interviewed after she was murdered as a six-year-old. Okay. Can you tell me
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your name? What's your name? [Music] When I watch that video over and over again. Okay. The day before Sunday, what
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did you do? What I see is a a six-year-old boy that that life has been ch changed. He doesn't understand the
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magnitude of it yet. [Music] You trying to find out who killed my mother? Do you remember seeing her
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leave? You did? Was she? Anytime a young woman Salon's age is killed the way she's
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killed, I think most people right away would assume the husband did it, right? And that's the easy way. That's the
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stereotypical way. But it's also not out of the realm of possibility that this was some
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killing for another reason. From that day on, my life changed forever. It just begs a question